amateur
[amaˈt̪ewɾ]
The verdict
“amateur” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #11,345. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,345
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Diletante, aficionado.
Corpus desk
Index ES-amateur · amateur · Spanish
amateur · rank #11,345 · 9 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,345
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH alteraciones
Nearest frequency peer: alteraciones (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “amateur”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- alberga
alberga
88,659 corpus weight
- alcanzaron
alcanzaron
88,658 corpus weight
- alteraciones
alteraciones
88,657 corpus weight
- amateur
amateur
88,656 corpus weight
- americanas
americanas
88,655 corpus weight
- antología
antología
88,654 corpus weight
What this shows “amateur” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amateur |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [amaˈt̪ewɾ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “amateur”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around amateur (IPA [amaˈt̪ewɾ]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #11,345 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Diletante, aficionado.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for amateur, with forms such as "aamteur", "amaetur", and "amateru". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is amateur, spelled A-M-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Diletante, aficionado.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aamteur
- amaetur
- amateru
- amateurr
- amatteur
- amatuer
- ammateur
- amtaeur
- maateur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of amateur - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).